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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44415	A sermon preach'd before the king at White-hall on the fifth of November, 1681 by George Hooper ...	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2706; ESTC R228742	12,526	28

crave leave to prosecute that way the occasion of the Day leads by representing First the Rights of God and of Caesar Secondly the Usurpations of the Pope upon both and Thirdly the Redress and Reform The Rights of God and the King and the Robbery the See of Rome has committed upon both have been made so evident by others that they will need here but a very brief Recapitulation First If we enquire what is God's we are to consider him as Lord in chief and sole Proprietor whose is the World and all that dwell therein Part indeed of his Dominion he hath been pleased to bestow on the Sons of Men but so as to be held of him by such Laws with such Services and under such Reservations as it shall have pleased the Almighty Donor 1. He has therefore reserv'd to himself the power of declaring Laws and those not to be overrul'd nor superseded but by himself to bind every where and for ever to pass through all Countries and continue to all Ages And those you may read he has delivered them in Writing 2. He has accordingly prescribed the Worship that shall be paid him and the Services he expects Those that are peculiar to him have his Image his Mark set upon them and are Incommunicable For he is a jealous God and will not give his Honour to another 3. And for this peculiar Service he has chosen to be waited upon by a distinct peculiar People that the Homage and Worship of the World may be presented to him in publick by proper hallowed Hands And these Men they too have their Character you may know them whose they are and to whom they belong 4. In the last place we may mention as proper to God not what he has primarily reserved but what afterwards his pious Servants out of Zeal and Gratitude have offered to him Such are all Donations sacred to his Name and appropriated to his Service These Possessions and Revenues whose they are you will find too by their Inscription look into the Charters of their Foundations and you will see they belong to God In the next place consider we what is Caesar's and if we look upon him we shall know his Quality and his Value Whose Image bears he And whom does he represent Is he not the Vicegerent of God 1. Wherever therefore his Sovereign the Almighty has not prevented him by any precedent Commands there he has right and liberty to put forth his in those cases to expect an active cheerful Obedience and that we should in no case and for no reason resist 2. Be this Civil Government Heretick or Infidel we are not discharged of our Allegiance We are obliged by the same Divine Authority to preserve our Religion under it and to continue to it our Subjection Nor are any Modern Governours of the Church greater than their Fathers the Apostles who obey'd patiently the worst of Heathen Emperors submitting either to their Edicts or Persecutions 3. The Duty of the Christian Emperor being to restrain Vice and Irreligion to promote Holiness and the Worship of God to him it belongs to order and direct the Church the way he shall think most proper for those ends to be its Temporal Overseer These are the unquestionable Rights of the Civil Power affirm'd in our Articles and asserted at large by others and to be given up to it by those that will render to Caesar what is Caesar's II. Neither are the Rights of God and the King more evident than that the Pope has invaded both His Usurpations are now grown as conspicuous as his Greatness and to recount them all would be to give a particular of his whole Authority Every one knows his Principality over the other Churches of the World what an unjust Claim it is and how meanly founded How his Authority at first was no greater than that of his Neighbour Bishops the Style the same and his Holyness in common His Precedence not in the Right of Saint Peter but of a Capital City and Addresses first made to him not because he was next to God but to the Imperial Court How from the civility of a Precedence they claim'd a Superiority because they had been consulted with they would afterwards command from arbitrating of difference referred to them by their Brethren concern'd they usurp'd a Judicature and then when none durst contradict them they could not err and grew Infallible It is too as well known how taking advantage of the weakness of an old Empire and making still conditions with the new authorizing the usurpations of others in countenance to their own abusing to their private purposes the zealous Devotion of new converted Barbarians and imposing on their unlearn'd Simplicity by the Authority of forg'd Donations and counterfeit Decretals and having before by various Arts and thorough the connivence or assistance of Princes gained an absolute power over the Bishops of the West They then by the aid of the enslaved Clergy and their Garrisons of Monks attempted openly on the Princes themselves confined their Jurisdiction and forbid them to meddle with the Persons or Revenues of Ecclesiasticks Authoritatively interpos'd in all Differences between Prince and Prince or Prince and People with their Spiritual Thunder in their hands commanded the World to lay down or take up Arms at their Pleasure exercising every where by their Legates the Sovereign Power of Peace and War giving the Law and disposing of Crowns and Lands as they thought fit He that disobey'd was first thrown out of the Church and then out of his Country his Subjects absolv'd from their Allegiance and those justified that had a mind to rebel or to invade They did the Holy Church and Saint Peter Service that seiz'd upon his Estate or his Person He stood delivered up to Satan to be Buffeted on Earth and Tormented in Hell These are the Steps to the Papal Throne and when they were mounted so have they Lorded it trampling imperiously on the Necks of Kings and Bishops in an equal violation of all Authority Sacred and Civil They are the first that directed pretended Holy Orders of men and Sons of Perfection in Separate Congregations to despise their true Spiritual Governours and first instructed Traiterous Subjects to rebel against their King the sanctified way And these Injustices of their Growth and violences of their grown Power lie so open in the successive Annals of the Christian Times That to secure their Cause they have reason to forbid the reading of all Histories as well as of the Holy Bible There we may as easily discern the beginning and gradual advance of the aspiring Papacy as of any other usurping Empire and that this new Rome has by means as humane as those the Old practised and with as little of divine Right extended the narrowness of its original Territory into a Catholick Dominion And there we shall find as soon as it rises to its plenitude of Power nothing but Robbery and Cruelty the World in a perpetual